From 5a88b6e70b57b39dc355140d39fcf42944db5129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Damien Miller Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 22:40:57 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] add warning --- README | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index fac7df457..ecd82c4d8 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ [ http://www.unixuser.org/%7Eharuyama/security/openssh/index.html [ Thanks to HARUYAMA Seigo +******* IMPORTANT +* On systmes which lack a /dev/random driver, this port of +* OpenSSH-1.2.2 was not correctly seeding OpenSSL's random number +* pool. This resulted in lower quality RSA keys being generated. If +* you generated host or user keys with v1.2.2, please generate new +* ones using a more recent version. + This is the port of OpenBSD's excellent OpenSSH to Linux and other Unices.